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Wjsu-tvWJSU-TV, channel 40, is the one of the two satellite stations alongside WCFT for WBMA, the ABC affiliate of the Birmingham-Anniston-Tuscaloosa market. WJSU is licensed to the city of Anniston. The combination of it and WCFT creates ABC33/40. History On October 29, 1969, thes station that became WJSU was founded. The original owners, Anniston Broadcasting Company, started the station on channel 40. The parent owners being members of the Harry M. Ayers family took the call letters of WHMA-TV (the family already owned ). They also owned the local paper, The Anniston Star and radio stations, WHMA-FM and WHMA-AM. The station served approximately 100,000 households in East Central Alabama. WHMA became a CBS affiliate in the mid 1970's. WHMA-TV changed its call letters in the late 1970's or early 1980's because in 1989 Osborn Communications purchased the station. The call letters were changed to WJacksonville State University. The station was again sold to current owners Flagship Broadcasting before combining with WCFT and becoming an ABC affiliate. This combination of "33/40" came about in 1995 when Allbritton Communications purchased WCFT in Tuscaloosa. Since WBRC-TV was changing from ABC to Fox, Allbritton contracted with Flagship Broadcasting to local market agreement WJSU and convert both WCFT and WJSU from CBS affiliates to ABC affiliates as satellites of a low power station based in Birmingham. WBMG (at the time now WIAT) would serve as the region's CBS affiliate. The deal went through and Arbitron ended up collapsing the Tuscaloosa and the Anniston Markets into the Birmingham Market in September of 1998 making it the 39th largest DMA in the nation. ABC 33/40's coverage stretches from the Alabama-Georgia line all the way to Columbus, Mississippi. External Link *Official Website of ABC33/40
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